Thanks And Acknowledgements

My thanks go to Kent Libraries and Archives - Folkestone Library and also to the archive of the Folkestone Herald. For articles from the Folkestone Observer, my thanks go to the Kent Messenger Group. Southeastern Gazette articles are from UKPress Online, and Kentish Gazette articles are from the British Newspaper Archive. See links below.

Paul Skelton`s great site for research on pubs in Kent is also linked

Other sites which may be of interest are the Folkestone and District Local History Society, the Kent History Forum, Christine Warren`s fascinating site, Folkestone Then And Now, and Step Short, where I originally found the photo of the bomb-damaged former Langton`s Brewery, links also below.


Welcome

Welcome to Even More Tales From The Tap Room.

Core dates and information on licensees tenure are taken from Martin Easdown and Eamonn Rooney`s two fine books on the pubs of Folkestone, Tales From The Tap Room and More Tales From The Tap Room - unfortunately now out of print. Dates for the tenure of licensees are taken from the very limited editions called Bastions Of The Bar and More Bastions Of The Bar, which were given free to very early purchasers of the books.

Easiest navigation of the site is by clicking on the PAGE of the pub you are looking for and following the links to the different sub-pages. Using the LABELS is, I`m afraid, not at all user-friendly.

Contrast Note

Whilst the above-mentioned books and supplements represent an enormous amount of research over many years, it is almost inevitable that further research will throw up some differences to the published works. Where these have been found, I have noted them. This is not intended to detract in any way from previous research, but merely to indicate that (possible) new information is available.

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Saturday 31 March 2012

Updates

31st March, 2012: Folkestone Express Reports for 1879 Added.

Links to these are to the right.

Saturday 24 March 2012

Updates

24th March, 2012: Folkestone Express Reports for 1878 Added

Links to these posts are to the right of this post

Saturday 17 March 2012

Updates

17th March 2012: Folkestone Express Reports for 1877 Added

Link are to the right

Little Raglan, The Warren 1877

A new photo showing the works during the repairs has recently surfaced. Could it be that the Little Raglan was the building centre right on this photo? My sincere thanks to the Annie and Peter Bamford Collection for allowing me to use this photograph.
After the landslip at The Warren, 1877. Two gentlemen stand outside a building at top left. Could this be the Little Raglan? Photograph kindly supplied by Alan Taylor.

Inspection of the works to clear debris after the Warren landslip in 1877.

 

Licensees:

Arthur Langton 1877
William Summers 1877
 

Folkestone Express 10-2-1877

An addition of 400 men has been made to those now working on the tunnel and slips, and it is now almost certain that the tunnel will be clear in about 28 days. So nearly have they got through that the sound of the men working on the outside is plainly heard by those clearing on the inside of the tunnel. It is proposed to make an open cutting of part of the Martello Tunnel, from the Dover end, for about 150 to 200 yards.

The men do not have to travel very far for their beer, Messrs. Langton and Co., of the Imperial Brewery, Tontine Street, having erected a shed near the works and taken out a license to sell intoxicating liquors there. Those who have charge of the beershop are very often placed in a very awkward predicament. For instance, on one occasion, just as they had “turned in” for a little rest, some of the excavators called for beer, and upon being refused, threatened to burn the “shanty” down, and actually kindled a large fire on the outside with the intention of so doing, but the inmates having become alarmed, they supplied them with beer.

Folkestone Express 3-3-1877

Local News

Extract from a report on works to clear landslip at the Warren

The shanty which was used by Messrs. Langton & Co. has at last received a name. Messrs. Langton & Co. have transferred the business to Mr. W. Summers of the Raglan Tavern, near the Station, and he has christened the shanty The Little Raglan.

Saturday 10 March 2012

Updates

10th March, 2012: Folkestone Express Reports for 1876 Added. Links to these are on the right

Thursday 8 March 2012

Updates

8th March, 2012: Various Photographs added. List is on right.

Tuesday 6 March 2012

Updates

6th March, 2012: Various photographs added. List is on right

Usual Suspects, (Old) High Street 2000 - c2008

The former Usual Suspects (once Marquis Of Granby)

 

 

Found on internet. If your photo, please contact so credit can be given

Licensees

Steven Deacy, William Curran and Ian Fordrey 2000 2001
Steven Deacy and William Curran 2001 2004 +

Saturday 3 March 2012

Updates

3rd March 2012: Folkestone Express Reports for 1875 Added.

Links to these appear to the right of this post.

Once more, due to amount of transcription involved, there will be no midweek post.